ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

METAL IN TEETH MAKES HUMAN RADIOS—PUZZLE TO LONDON SCIENTISTS.

“Radio hallucination” is a new malady which has made its appearance in England and is puzzling doctors. There has been at least a dozen cases in the last six months. Sufferers from it imagine they aro human receiving sets and are able to receive radio messages through their ears and mouths. A notable case occurred in Birmingham, where a man complained that he could not sleep because he says tie is constantly getting messages from the ether. At times he complains of pain in the ears as though someone were running a redhot needle through the drum. When the pain subsides he hears buzzing like the Morse code. Apart from this hallucination he is perfectly normal aud alienists who have examined him declare his mind is absolutely sound.A variation of thia malady is the claim of other sufferers that their sensitiveness is so seen they can hoar the throbbing of orchestras and the sound of strange far away voices. A sailor who believed he could pick up wireless messages said lie believed a certain amount of metal in his teeth was responsible. When the metal was removed the hallucination ceased. Evelyn Maxwell the noted psychic phenomenon appearing with Carter the Great who with his company will appear at Municipal Theatre, Hastings, for one eight only commencing Thursday, 29th Sept., claims to receive her telepathic and apparent clairvoyant messages in much the same manner, except that she uses silk about her av a conductor, Sue maintains that it required many years to determine the agency of easy reception of thought and the conscious intelligible registration of mental Jiv turns which constitute the develop meat of her extraordinary powers of divination. Miss Maxwell Has been blessed with a beautiful complement of teeth which have no metal in or about them, neither does the claim supernatural or preternatural aid; yet she calmly sits blindfolded nightly on a brilliantly ligated stage aad calls out your name your business, sets the day of youi marriage or the number of children, if any, with which your union will be blessed; and she foretells in rapid sequence events that happened or will happen in your life. She foresaw aud prophesied the Great War, and in many other ways demon strat’ed that sho possesses a most un canny power quite bevond the ken of the ordinary mortal-

MB ALEXANDER WATSON. THIS EVENING.

A welcome return awaits this great English entertainer in Hastings this evening, after a triumphant tour ol the Dominion. For weeks past crowded houses have listened wifi delight to his selections from J. M. Barrie, Dickens John Masefield, Kipling Shakspe’are, Mark Twain, Milne, Roderic Quinn, to mention only a few of the writers whose works he has helped to make familier. Mr E. J. Gravestock under whose direction Mr Alexander Watson is touring the Dominion, has every reason to bo pleased with the success of so groat an artist. At the opening recital in Wellington, over 300 people were turned away, and a similar state of affairs continue nightly, so great was the desire of the public to- be lou by him through the, gems of Englisn literature. The remarkable power which Mr Watson has, in such supremo degree, of vividly reproducing in the minds of his hearers without any adventitious aids whatsoever, the scenes and characters in a- story, uraiuu poem, or humorous episode, gives ms work unrivalled distinction, air Watson’s first programme at llio Municipal Theatre to-night will include Hunting for Ezra from Sir J. M. Barrie's famous story, “The Little Minister” with all its dry humour and its strange but masterful characteristics; also the works by John Masefield, A'. A. Milne, Kipling, Dickens, and Shakespeare. A vciy characteristic comment of this delightfully entertaining man was given by llio Melbourne “Ago” which said: “Mr Watson is said to be England’s foremost elocutionist, but the ability he showed on Saturday to drop into a real Scotch brogue was such that no Scotsman will ever believe that he is an Englishman. In any case his name belies it. And yet there was no ac cent, from the so-called Oxford drawl, and its total and horrible mispronunciation of the English language to the Cockney twang, which Mr Watson was not able to express with perfect accuracy and apparent facility. Mr Watson recited those loveable incidents in the ‘ The Little Minister ’ concerning the gypsy, the riot, and the minister’s terrible dilemma. Those who have read ‘The Little Minister’ will do so again after hearing Mr Watson. He kept the house tense with interest; he made it laugh uproariously, but at no time did he lose complete mastery of his audience. And then with that extraordinary versatility of which he is master. Mr Watson interpreted Kipling’s “The Sea and the Hills.” Mulholland’s “Contract,” and ‘A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent,” finishing with Milne’s delightful ‘When We Were Very Young.” A different programme will be given to-morrow evening. The box plans are at Fail’s.